Same-sex marriage meetings

From: Andrew Godfrey

19 September 2011

Dear Prime Minister’s Office,

I wish to request a log of all meetings attended by the Prime Minister or other officials from the Office of the Prime Minister in the past twelve months concerning the topic of same-sex marriage. Please include agendas, minutes and a list of participating organisations where possible.

In your reply to my original enquiry, you stated that you held no records of meetings held by the Prime Minster's office discussing same-sex marriage. Since it is not credible that your office does not store agendas/minutes for meetings, and given that your office must have had meetings on this topic in the past 12 months given the Prime Minster's various recent statements on same-sex marriage, I cannot accept that your original reply is correct and do not believe sufficient care was taken to obtain an answer to my request.